2020 in Review
Google’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Yet Still Extremely Profitable 2020
Alphabet ran a gantlet of regulatory threats as the pandemic diminished, and then boosted, profits
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As Antitrust Pressure Mounts, Google to Pull Back Benefit to News Sites That Adopted Its Preferred Mobile Technology
Will the AMP format die as a result?
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Introducing Simple Search
A new browser extension from The Markup
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In Historic Antitrust Lawsuit, DOJ Cites Banned Words and Google Self-Preferencing As Supporting Evidence
The lawsuit noted that the company pushes down “organic” results and tells employees to avoid words that have implications in antitrust law—practices revealed by two investigations by The Markup
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How to Stop Google Self-Preferencing? Europe May Not Be the Model
A congressional subcommittee last week recommended new nondiscrimination rules for big tech firms, but experts say the trick is enforcement
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To Head Off Regulators, Google Makes Certain Words Taboo
The Markup obtained internal documents that coach new employees to avoid creating “very real legal risks” in using words like “market” and “network effects”
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Congressman Says The Markup Investigation Proves Google Has Created a “Walled Garden”
Comment comes as part of big tech CEO grilling by antitrust committee
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How We Analyzed Google’s Search Results
Novel categorizations and “staining” techniques uncovered how much space on the search results page Google dedicates to itself
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Google’s Top Search Result? Surprise! It’s Google
The search engine dedicated almost half of the first page of results in our test to its own products, which dominated the coveted top of the page
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Google Ad Portal Equated “Black Girls” with Porn
Searching Google’s ad buying portal for “Black girls” returned hundreds of terms leading to “adult content”
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